Unkempt Wenches of the Wilderness

From a speculative essay on the origin of human history, by our dear friend and philosophy canon member Immanuel Kant:

“In the course of time, however, the growing luxury of the town-dwellers, and in particular the seductive arts in which the women of the towns surpassed the unkempt wenches of the wilderness, must have been a powerful temptation to the herdsmen to enter into relations with them and to let themselves be drawn into the glittering misery of the towns.”

I want a T-shirt.

Can it be any more obvious that men who write books with stuff like this in them aren’t actually talking to real women at all?

Frickin’ hilarious.

via kelby

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